Would You Wear This Versace-Inspired Candy Jewelry to the Met Gala?

For any fashion girl who loved to adorn her fingers with Ring Pops back in the day, Maayan Zilberman’s candy is the stuff of dreams. The founder of Sweet Saba and former lingerie designer has made some of our wildest candy fantasies come to life, whether it be a Sex and the City “Carrie” necklace you could suck on or a crystal ring that looked like it was made from real rocks and not a pile of sugar. And now, she’s about to show off what is undoubtedly some of her most worship-worthy work. In celebration of this year’s Met Gala and the Costume Institute exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” Zilberman has paired up with Versace to create a collection of Champagne-flavored rosary necklaces and rings for the big event. As the candymaker explains, “I took specific inspiration from the jewelry, including hand-carved rosaries and giant papal rings, that I photographed when I visited the Vatican a few months ago.” Zilberman also used edible gold to create the pieces and, of course, incorporated the Versace Medusa as well.

“Everything took me about three weeks to complete,” she explains. “The first step was sketching and compiling the imagery I had, then I sculpted each element out of clay by hand.” Next, Zilberman fired the clay to make molds, “the way a jeweler might do, but in this case I pour molten sugar instead of precious metal.” The pieces will be available for special order on the Sweet Saba site and are exclusive to Versace, and while she can’t yet confirm where we will see them on Monday night, Zilberman does note that the rosaries and rings will “have special moments at both the gala and the Versace after-party.” If her Donatella Versace–inspired photo shoot for the new candy is any indication, we’re sure that the blonde fashion grande dame herself will be sporting candy-laden accessories. A red carpet moment never seemed so sweet.